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Rare Back-to-Back Flybys of Venus Will Happen Next Week - Gizmodo
Aug 02, 2021 40 secs
The two spacecraft will fly by Venus on August 9 and 10, respectively, with the Solar Orbiter passing from a distance of about 5,000 miles and BepiColombo practically grazing the planet at just 350 miles away.

The Solar Orbiter has been zipping through these gravity assists since last year; it’s scheduled to make a total of six, five of which are Venus flybys.

BepiColombo made one Earth flyby in April 2020 and a Venus flyby last October, and is scheduled to make six flybys of Mercury by 2025.

BepiColombo will see Mercury for the first time in early October, and the Solar Orbiter will make its final pass by Earth in late November.

The data from the upcoming Venus flybys could eventually be of use to the ESA’s EnVision orbiter, set to launch for Venus in the early 2030s.

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